5 The heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,  and your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones;6 For who among the clouds can be compared to the Lord?  Who is like the Lord among the host of heaven?7 A God feared in the council of the holy ones,  great and terrible above all those round about him.8 Who is like you, Lord God of hosts?  Mighty Lord, your faithfulness is all around you.9 You rule the raging of the sea;  you still its waves when they arise.10 You crushed Rahab with a deadly wound  and scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.11 Yours are the heavens; the earth also is yours;  you established the world and all that fills it.12 You created the north and the south;  Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.13 You have a mighty arm;  strong is your hand and high is your right hand.14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;  steadfast love and faithfulness go before your face.15 Happy are the people who know the shout of triumph:  they walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance.16 In your name they rejoice all the day long  and are exalted in your righteousness.17 For you are the glory of their strength,  and in your favour you lift up our heads.18 Truly the Lord is our shield;  the Holy One of Israel is our king.

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1 Kings 19: 1-8

Elijah Flees from Jezebel

19Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.
3Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a days journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.
5Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, Get up and eat.
6He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
7The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.
8He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

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Ephesians 4: 1-16

Unity in the Body of Christ

4I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
2with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
3making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling,
5one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.

7 But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christs gift.
8Therefore it is said,When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people.
9(When it says, He ascended, what does it mean but that he had also descended* into the lower parts of the earth?
10He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.)
11The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
13until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
14We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by peoples trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming.
15But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
16from whom the whole body, joined and knitted together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the bodys growth in building itself up in love.

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Genesis 12: 1-7

The Call of Abram

12Now the Lord said to Abram, Go from your country and your kindred and your fathers house to the land that I will show you.
2I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.*

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5Abram took his wife Sarai and his brothers son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
6Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak* of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, To your offspring* I will give this land. So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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John 6: 1-14

Feeding the Five Thousand

6After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.*2A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick.
3Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples.
4Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.
5When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?
6He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.
7Philip answered him, Six months wages* would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.
8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peters brother, said to him,
9There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?
10Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they* sat down, about five thousand in all.
11Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted.
12When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.
13So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets.
14When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.